6,076 research outputs found
Letter from Montezuma to cousin Mike Burns
No full textabstract: Montezuma urges Mike Burns and the McDowell Indians to keep McDowell land and Verde River water; NOT to move to Salt River Reservation as proposed
Who tells the story of burns in low-and-middle income countries? – A bibliometric study
No full textLow- and middle-income countries (LMICs) remain drastically underrepresented in health research, with African countries producing less than 1% of the global output. This work investigates authorship patterns of publications on burns in LMICs. Original research studies addressing burn injuries in LMICs and published between 1st January 2015 and 31st December 2020 were included in the review. Descriptive statistics were performed for country affiliations of authors, World Bank Country Income Groups, WHO group, study-focus and country studied. Of the 458 results, 426 studies met the inclusion criteria. Nearly a quarter of papers on burns in LMICs had both first and senior authors from high-income countries (HICs, n = 95, 24.4%), more than half of the papers had both first and senior authors from upper middle- income countries (upper MICs, n = 222, 57.2%), while less than 1% (n = 3) had first and senior authors exclusively from lower-income countries (LICs). Eleven percent (n = 41/388) of all papers were written without either first nor senior author being from the country studied, and 17 of them (41%) had both first and senior authors from the USA. Twenty-five (6%) of the papers had the first author and not the senior author from the country of focus, while six (2%) had the senior and not the first author from the country of interest. To overcome global health challenges such as burns, locally led research is imperative. The maximum benefit of HIC-LMIC collaborations is achieved when LMICs play an active role in leading the research. When LMICs direct the research being conducted in their country, the harm of inherently inequitable relationships is minimized.</p
Lucy Burns letter to Lucile Atcherson, July 24, 1914
No full textOn July 24, 1914, Lucy Burns, a national women's suffragist, wrote this letter to Lucile Atcherson, the executive secretary of the Franklin County Woman Suffrage Association. Burns informs Atcherson that she is sending the banners of the Federated Clubs, Nevada, Oklahoma, and South Dakota, per Miss Atcherson's request. Burns also wishes Atcherson luck with a demonstration in support of women's suffrage scheduled for July 30, 1914.
The Franklin County Woman Suffrage Association was formed in 1912, after the Ohio Constitutional Convention elected to bring to a vote the question of removing the words "white male" from the state constitution with regard to voting rights. Headquartered in the Chamber of Commerce building in Columbus, Ohio, the organization put out regular publications, organized public speeches and meetings, distributed literature and held parades in support of the suffrage movement. Women's suffrage in Ohio was defeated in a special election in 1912 and again in 1914 and 1916 before a resolution narrowly passed in 1917 allowing municipal voting by women in Columbus. In 1920, the 19th Amendment passed, extending the vote to women and prohibiting state and federal government from denying suffrage on the basis of sex
‘Color of Water’ author, James McBride, reflects on race, politics and his new book
No full textAn interview with prize-winning author James McBride on how he explores race in his new collection of stories, @Five-Carat Soul@
Jennifer Burns: «Milton Friedman, el último conservador».
No full textBurns ha tenido acceso a los archivos de Milton Friedman en la Hoover Institution y ha aportado documentación inédita. El resultado: la mejor biografía hasta ahora de uno de los más influyentes economistas del siglo XX. Milton Friedman, el que fue premio Nobel de Economía defendió el mercado libre como la mejor fórmula para lograr la prosperidad. La historiadora Jennifer Burns publica la primera biografía canónica sobre el que fuera Premio Nobel de Economía (1976). Y justifica el subtítulo "El último conservador", aclarando que no usa el término liberal, más acorde con el perfil del economista, porque en EE.UU. se asocia a ideas cercanas a la socialdemocracia; y lo llama el último porque la derecha norteamericana se ha alejado de los principios del mercado abierto y el libre comercio internacional que postuló Friedman. Jennifer Burns: «Milton Friedman. The last conservative». Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023
Maneja la autora documentación inédita gracias a su condición de fellow e investigadora de la Hoover Institution (Universidad de Stanford), donde Friedman tenía sus archivos y donde pasó la última parte de su vida activa (1977-2006). Destaca Burns el interés temprano de aquel joven judío por las matemáticas y la estadística; su paso por la Universidad de Chicago, para hacer el doctorado, donde conoció a la que sería su esposa, Rose Director; y su trabajo como estadístico en la Administración Federal, en los años 30, con Roosevelt en la presidencia
Funding preventive or curative care? The Assiut Burns Project
No full textThe Assuit Burns Project (ABP) is a small Egyptian NGO working to help burns victims. The author describes the work of the Project, setting out its various capacities, and criticises funders' and donors' over-emphasis on preventative medicine at the expense of this type of curative work. Burns victims can become economic and social outcasts, and this impacts on development, and equity (particularly gender equity). This article also appears in the Development in Practice Reader Development and Management.This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.</p
Revising Robert Burns and the ‘No Female Bards’ of Ulster-Scots Poetry
No full textJohn Hewitt’s claim to ‘no female bards’ as part of the revival of what he called the rhyming weaver poets tradition narrowed the scope of scholarly interest. A variety of publications have provided a range of in-depth studies on the impact of Robert Burns in Ireland, and have done much to challenge the latter claim. However, the presence and output of Ulster-Scots women writers within this wider area of scholarship remains little known. By analysing poetry from three writers – Olivia Elder, Sarah Leech and Margaret Dixon McDougall – this article aims to advance several lesser-known eighteenth and nineteenth-century female Irish poets, add depth to the study of Ulster-Scots women’s writing, and provide a novel perspective on the relationship between Robert Burns and Ireland. Elder, who was active as a writer in the 1770s, adapts works from the eighteenth-century song tradition to satirize ‘Old Light’ Presbyterian beliefs in Ireland, arguably anticipating Burns attacks on Presbyterian church orthodoxy. Leech was a spinner living and writing in north-west Ulster in the early part of the nineteenth century, while Dixon came from a wealthy family in Co. Antrim, and emigrated to Canada in the 1840s, where she went on to become a pioneering writer and journalist. Both employ Standard Habbie in verses that ostensibly emulate Burns poems – ‘To a Mouse’ and ‘Address to the Deil’ – but which on closer inspection provide a vehicle to ruminate on moral, religious, and philosophical matters that were relevant to the unique circumstances of each author.</p
Firework injuries at a major trauma and burn center: A five-year prospective study
No full textBackground and objective: In China,. fireworks are an integral part of the celebration of the annual Spring Festival, but the number of injuries associated with their private use seen in emergency rooms increases dramatically. To-raise awareness and help guide future prevention practices in this city, we investigated the epidemiology of firework-related injuries presented at our trauma and burn center in Beijing during the Spring Festivals of 2007-2011. Methods: Patients were interviewed using a pre-coded questionnaire. to elicit information regarding age, gender, causes, injured body part, type of injury, diagnosis, and disposition. Result: From 2007 to 2011, during the Spring Festivals 734 patients with fire-work related injuries were seen at our trauma and burn center in Beijing, the median patients of the five year were 140(136-150). The mean age of the patients was 26 +/- 15.3 years (range, 1-95 years). Of the 734 patients, the highest proportion of injuries were the 5-14 year-old age group The majority of the patients were male (87.9%), the overall male:female ratio was 7.41:1, and males were predominant in all age groups. For all 5 years, the incidence of firework-related injuries during the Spring Festival Holidays peaked specifically on the first, fifth, and last days, respectively. Injuries were mainly due to improper handling (415/610, 68.0%) or setting off illegal fireworks (195/610, 32.0%). The most frequently injured body parts were the hands and fingers (32.0%), head or face except eyes (28.3%), and trunk (22.4%). Burns were the most common type of injury (65.7%), most of the burned patients (437/453) were between 1% and 10%, and the most common region burned were hands and fingers (218/754). Contusions or lacerations were the second common type of injury (34.3%). Most of the patients (642, 87.5%) were treated and released, while 37 (5%) were treated and transferred, and 55 (7.5%) were admitted for advanced treatment. Conclusion: The private use of fireworks during the Spring Festival Holidays is associated with a considerable number of injuries to various parts of the body. We can minimize the number and severity of accidents by raising awareness of safety practices, encouraging professional displays only and motivating manufacturers to adhere to strict quality control. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd and ISBI. All rights reserved.Critical Care MedicineDermatologySurgerySCI(E)[email protected]
Robert Burns in soviet social commentary of 1930 – 1950s
No full textThe article deals for the first time with the systematization and comprehending of journalistic responses to the literary work of Robert Burns in the Soviet periodicals of the 1930s – 1950s. The article «Robert Burns» written by A.A. Anikst, published in №. 4 of the magazine «Young Guard» for 1938, raises the question of the historical role of Robert Burns in the development of English literature. The poetry of the Scottish poet is considered not from the position of her belonging to a certain literary direction, but from the point of view of her uniqueness, which expresses in the amazing closeness to ordinary people and melodiousness, similar to the folklore compositions of the Scots themselves. A.A.Anikst noted in the article the simplicity, naturalness and sincerity of the poetical works of the Scottish bard, who was «not a voluntary philanthropist who looked down on the people», but «a man from the masses», singing in his poems the everyday life of ordinary peasants, poor people, their joys and sorrows, having earned the worldwide fame of a folklore’s songwriter. Burns admired the author of the article not only by his cheerfulness and optimism, but also by the depth and complexity of his emotions, expressed in a sensitive understanding of nature, its aesthetic beauty, the ability to notice the smallest details, to sympathize with an ordinary wild mouse and wildflower, sincerely, together with the people, laugh over the rich, speaking out against their stinginess and emotional poverty. In contrast to A.A. Anikst, G.I. Gerasimov, the author of the article «Scottish Bard», emphasized the international recognition of R. Burns’s work, wrote about the phenomenon of finding his poems «second homeland» in the vastness of Soviet Russia, which became possible thanks to the appearance of talented translations of S. Ya. Marshak, who managed to convey not only the meaning, but also the «spirit and melody» of the works of the great Scots. The article highlights issues related to the reception of the work of a Scottish songwriter in the Soviet Union, lists the facts reflecting the extraordinary interest to his poetry by ordinary citizens, which manifested itself in a high readership demand for his books. The author of the article also wrote about the universal values sung in Burns\u27s poems, as well as about friendship, the ability to value leisure and enjoy life despite all difficultie
Hay una cosa muy importante en Churchill: su idea de libertad. Conversación con Tom Burns Marañón
No full textCuando alguien, en momentos de nostalgia política, quiere citar a algún dirigente histórico que valga la pena recordar, para contraponerlo a las carencias de muchos políticos actuales, el nombre de Winston Churchill resulta obligado. ¿Hay algún Churchill por ahí? Se cumple este año el cincuentenario de la muerte de esta gigantesca figura de la historia contemporánea, de la que Isaiah Berlin dijo que fue «el ser humano más grande de nuestro tiempo». Para conmemorar ese aniversario, en Nueva Revista hemos acudido a los expertos. El catedrático Rafael Navarro Valls ha trazado un vívido perfil de quien él ha llamado «el británico del milenio». Y Tom Burns Marañón ha aceptado conversar con NR para, desde su punto de vista, lleno de intuición y conocimiento, completar la evocación del gran político inglés, que fue muchas cosas —soldado, ministro, parlamentario, jefe de gobierno, periodista, escritor, premio Nobel de Literatura— y en todas ellas acreditó, en grado sumo, las virtudes que distinguen a los hombres excepcionales
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